ZOBODAT - www.zobodat.at Zoologisch-Botanische Datenbank/Zoological-Botanical Database Digitale Literatur/Digital Literature Zeitschrift/Journal: Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo Jahr/Year: 2012 Band/Volume: 33 Autor(en)/Author(s): Naumann Stefan, Löffler Swen, Nässig Wolfgang A. Artikel/Article: Taxonomic notes on the group of Loepa miranda, 2: The subgroup of Loepa damartis (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) 87-106 Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, N. F. 33 (2/3): 87–106 (2012) 87 Taxonomic notes on the group of Loepa miranda, 2: The subgroup of Loepa damartis (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)1 Stefan Naumann2, Swen Löffler and Wolfgang A. Nässig3 Dr. Stefan Naumann, Hochkirchstrasse 11, D­10829 Berlin, Germany; [email protected] (corresponding author) Swen Löffler, Hospitalgasse 7, D­09350 Lichtenstein/Sachsen, Germany; swen.loeffler@t­online.de Dr. Wolfgang A. Nässig, Entomologie II, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, D­60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; [email protected] Abstract: A review on the taxa of the subgroup of Loepa lin), und L. melli sp. n., Ho lo ty pus Männ chen aus Gan su (in da martis Jordan, 1911 from China is presented. For the ZMHU Ber lin). Alle Arten in klu si ve ihrer Ho lo ty pen be zie­ fol low ing four taxa lectotypes are designated (all males): hungs wei se Lectotypen so wie ihre männ li chen Ge ni tal struk­ L. ka tinka ku ang tungensis Mell, 1939 (in MAKB Bonn), L. tu ren wer den abgebildet. ka tin ka sep ten trio na lis Mell, 1939 (in ZMHU Berlin) (these two taxa being members of the species­group of katinka), L. mi ran da tai pei sha nis Mell, 1939 (in MAKB Bonn), and Introduction L. mi ran da septentrionalis Mell, 1939 (in MAKB Bonn); all Some general notes on the genus Loepa Moore, 1859 four ta xa are dealt with on full species status (partly stat. (for the correct publication date of the genus name, n.). L. m iranda sep ten trio na lis and L. ka tin ka septentrionalis are pri mary ho mo nyms. Based on “first revisors’ choice”, L. see Nässig 2007) are gi ven in a separate publication by ka tin ka sep ten trio na lis is given preference over L. mi ran da Naumann & Löff ler (2012), published simultaneously ‡sep ten trio na lis, and the junior subjective sy n o nym L. wlin­ in the same issue. A preliminary and tentatively phy lo­ gana Yang, 1978 is tak en as the re place ment name for the ge ne tic grou p ing of the species was published by Nau­ latter. Also L. damartis szech wa na Zhu & Wang, 1993 is mann (1995: 82) which is still basically valid; the three found to be a junior subjective synonym of L. wlingana (syn. L. oberthuri L. miranda n.). Two species are de scribed as new: L. elon gata sp. n., spe cies­groups of (Leech, 1890), holotype male from Si chuan (in ZMHU Ber lin), and L. melli At kin son in Moore, 1865 and L. katinka (Westwood, sp. n., holo type male from Gan su (in ZMHU Ber lin). All taxa 1848) were later again defined in more detail by Yen et including their holo ty pes re s pec tive ly lec to ty pes and their al. (2000: 153). In this paper the miranda­group was di vi­ male ge ni ta lia are fi gured. ded into two subgroups, namely the miranda­sub group Key words: Loepa damartis subgroup, Loepa taipeishanis, which is dis tributed more to the South, and the da martis­ Loepa kuangtungensis, Loepa septentrionalis, homonymy, sub group more to the North. A third, later iden tified re place ment name, lectotype designations, new species, sub group of the miranda­group (the yun na na­subgroup) Chi na is sub ject of the paper by Naumann & Löff ler (2012). Taxonomische Bemerkungen zur Artengruppe von The present work is dealing with the subgroup of L. Loepa miranda, 2: Die Untergruppe von Loepa damartis damartis Jordan, 1911 (the oldest name in this sub­ (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) group), a well­defined species­complex within the mi ran­ Zusammenfassung: Es wird eine Übersicht über die Taxa da­group in which all taxa show a fused tip of the uncus der Untergruppe von Loepa damartis Jordan, 1911 aus in ♂ genitalia, and a paler yellow ish ground co lour, Chi na gegeben. Für folgende vier Taxa werden Lectotypen compared with other members of the genus. The spe cies de signiert (alles Männchen): L. katinka kuangtungensis Mell, 1939 (in MAKB Bonn), L. katinka septentrionalis dealt with in this publication are defined by a re la ti ve ly Mell, 1939 (in ZMHU Berlin) (diese beiden Taxa gehören rounded, compact wing form both in ♂ and ♀ spe ci mens zur ka tin ka­Artengruppe), L. mi randa taipeishanis Mell, (except of one species described as new below), re latively 1939 (in MAKB Bonn), und L. miranda septentr ionalis Mell, small wing ocelli, a greyish black an te me dian line of 1939 (in MAKB Bonn); alle vier Taxa werden auf Artrang the forewing with only small car mine or pur ple sha dow ge se hen (teilweise stat. n.). L. miranda sep ten trio nalis und L. ka tin ka sep ten trio nalis sind primäre Ho m o nyme. Auf der on its costal end (again with one ex cep tion, L. da martis Ba sis der Entscheidung der ersten Revisoren wird L. ka tin ka itself), relative small male genitalia with less scle rotised sep ten trio nalis Vorrang eingeräumt. Als Ersatzname für L. parts, compared to other members of the miranda­group, mi ran da ‡sep ten trio nalis wird das subjektive jüngere Syn­ and, in general, a main flight period in late summer and onym L. wlin ga na Yang, 1978 vor ge schla gen. Auch L. da mar­ autumn which makes a hi ber na tion as ovum plausible. tis szech wana Zhu & Wang, 1993 ist ein jüngeres sub jek ti­ ves Syn onym von L. wlin ga na (syn. n.). Zwei wei te re Ar ten All taxa (again with one ex cep tion) occur in lower moun­ aus dem Komplex wer den als neu beschrieben: L. elon ga ta tain ous areas, only one ta xon is a typical representative sp. n., Holotypus Männ chen aus Si chuan (in ZMHU Ber­ of a high mountain fau na. All taxa are confined to Chi na, 1 The expressions “[species­]group” and, subordinate to this, “[species­]subgroup” (sometimes also “species­complex”) are used in this publication as ten ta tive informal groupings of species which are deemed to be closely related to each other and supposedly form a monophyletic unit. How ever, these group ings are here not intended to be published for the purpose of zoo lo gic al nomenclature (ICZN 1999: Art. 8.2.; disclaimer), and these col lec tive group na mes, therefore, do not enter into the genus­group of names in zoo logy (ICZN 1999: Art. 10.3., 10.4.). 2 23rd contribution to the Saturniidae fauna of China (22nd contribution: S. Naumann & S. Löffler [2012]: Taxonomic notes on the group of Loepa miranda, 1: The subgroup of Loepa yunnana (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). — Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, N.F. 33 (2/3): 57–68). 3 81st contribution to the knowledge of Saturniidae. (80th contribution: Rougerie, R., Naumann, S., & Nässig, W. A. [2012]: Morphology and mole cules reveal unexpected cryptic diversity in the enigmatic genus Sinobirma Bryk, 1944 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). — PloS ONE, San Francisco, 7 (9): e43920 [doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0043920].) © Entomologischer Verein Apollo e. V., Frankfurt am Main 88 with a focus on south west China, and one taxon is even ZMHU Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt­Universität, Ber lin, distributed as far north east as Liaoning province, the most Germany. north ern re pre sen ta ti ve of the entire genus (map: Fig. 1). ZSM Zoologische Staatssammlungen München (Munich), Ger­ ma ny. During recent years legs of many populations of Pa lae­ arc tic and Asian Saturniidae were sent to the “Ca na dian Taxonomic notes on the taxa described so far Centre for DNA Barcoding” (CCDB) in Guelph, On tario, (In chronological order of their description.) for se quen cing and analy s ing using the 658 base pairs (bp) of the bar code frag ment of the mi to chon dri al cy to­ Loepa damartis Jordan, 1911 chro me­c oxy dase gene, subunit I (= mtDNA COI gene) The oldest taxon in the group is also the only one which (see Rat na sing ham & He bert 2007; in the web: Bar code easily can be separated from all other members by the of life 2012). DNA was ex trac ted from the legs of dried completely carmine to violet pink antemedian line of spe ci mens in the collections of the au thors and others. the forewing, compared to a combination of carmine to Tech nic al de tails of ex trac tion and am pli fi ca tion and dark violet with black in all other taxa. The identity of L. se quen c ing pro to cols can be found on the CCDB web­ damartis is well­defined also by its relative large size in site (CCDB 2012) and are also de scri b ed, e.g., in Va glia combination with rounded wings. et al. (2008). Also within the re sul t ing COI bar code Type material: The taxon was described after an unclear sequences the species as well as spe cies­sub groups and number of specimens for which no exact data are given in the ­groups are in most cases well­defined (see below in text original description.